The teams selected to sport the 2011 Nike Pro Combat system of dress uniforms include Army, Boise State, Georgia, LSU, Michigan State, Navy, Ohio State, Oregon and Stanford.
MSU to wear them Oct. 15th vs. Michigan.
Edit: Rumors on message boards indicate that they will wear their old black and gold / winged-helmet uniform. (yes, MSU used to wear wings, although they look very different from Michigan's).
Ugh,now we are forced to
Yup
Its tough being the biggest rival for 25 different teams. Makes every game a circus, lol.
Yes. Seems every time a team
Yes. Seems every time a team we play wants to do something special, they want to do it against us.
eh, I'd take one of those pro
eh, I'd take one of those pro combat uni's over our adidas night game jerseys
I wouldn't. Not in a million
I wouldn't.
OSU is wearing their's
OSU is wearing their's against wisconsin. Rejoice!!
Edit: Link: http://www.msuspartans.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/072011aab.html#_
That's the best news of this!
I've HATED how they've looked during the game the last few seasons. Thank gosh that we have a classic look for that one - finally!
Kinda great
Kinda great that we don't give a crap and aren't doing anything special in return.
Is there a link for this or
Is there a link for this or is this every school Nike announced?
Go Blue!
http://www.msuspartans.com/sp
Son of a .... that means we
Son of a .... that means we won't be able to see their formations until they move. That gives them such an advantage.
It's going to be like Predator out there
Class of '97: 4 Years -- 4 Four-loss seasons
Mmmm... pretty.
Toodles
Similar to this perhaps?
different color scheme obviously
"Over? Did you say, over? Nothing is over until we decide it is!"
Exactly, but it seems like
Exactly, but it seems like Michigan State's are black and white.
Regardless of color, those
Regardless of color, those unis look like something I would create if I was trying to be a superhero.
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
ugh
what horrible looking uniforms. Do they expect fans to realy buy those hideous jerseys?
Did you forget? we are
Did you forget? we are talking about MSU.
Will MSU's jerseys be the same style?
As for those Eagles jerseys - they wore those against the Lions i think, five years ago. And you'd be surprised at how popular those things were from the crowd shots of the stadium.
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Does
Does anyone else thing that the 'wings' on the gold and white helmets on the top shelf resemble, when worn, masssive, bushy eyebrows?
Sparty Helmets
I actually like them. The glossy green, the clean simple silhouette of the spartan. It's classy - and that's just about all they got going for them.
I can't see why they'd wear
I can't see why they'd wear anything but the '60s hats. They're classic. And they hearken back to when MSU was an honest-to-goodness national power.
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Sweet
Sweet collection!
(it's mine, lol)
Wow...
I'm impressed with the size of the glory hole at the bottom of the door to your trophy room.
Niiiiiiice.
Toodles
Yes, it is a big glory hole.
Yes, it is a big glory hole. However, it is also the most lazy glory hole I have ever seen. Is it meant for laying down?
It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.
Urge to kill....rising.
If I could only set that up at the gun range.
Fuck it, Dude, let's go bowling.
MSU with wings? Umm,
MSU with wings? Umm, Michigan envy what...
Considering MSU had winged
Considering MSU had winged helmets before Michigan, I'm not quite following your point...
That wasn't a "winged"
That wasn't a "winged" helmet, it was the design of the helmet itself (rather than a design on the helmet). Of course, you do follow the point. One school is famous for their helmets; the other school is not. Can you guess which is which?
Yes, UM clearly is famous for
Yes, UM clearly is famous for their winged helmets. That is not debatable - they are classic.
Nonetheless, I fail to see how MSU "envy" is shown here. MSU had this type of winged helmet before UM ever had their version. MSU is honoring their history.
Like that time when Rerun Van
Like that time when Rerun Van Pelt honored the history of Peanuts by wearing a modernized version of the look he sported in one of his earliest strips, wearing black pants and a striped red shirt, and carrying a baby blanket around.
I can't find a pic of that early Rerun-featured strip, but here's what it would probably have looked like:
And no, it has nothing to do with what Linus Van Pelt wears. It's all about honoring the history of Rerun.
It also reminds me of when they showed that early South Park when they honored the pre-Comedy Central cartoons and Ike appeared in his little known early outfit of green hat and orange jacket...something like this:
You can see it's totally different than Kyle, which this has nothing to do with. Why did I even mention Kyle? We're talking about the Great Tradition of the Ike Broflovski character.
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Honoring UM is more like it...
...UM is known for their winged helmet NOW. Other teams used to wear wings before, just like lots of teams had uniforms like Penn State before, but that is PSU's well-known look now. MSU wearing wings now is clearly a nod to the team known for it.
This is the...
...correct take. See this post of mine for info on the history of both the U-M and MSU helmets.
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I disagree that this is the
I disagree that this is the "correct take." It is an insanely arrogant take.
Saying MSU wearing certain uniforms "to honor UM" is maybe the most condescending thing I've ever read.
CoE Class of 2007
Eh
I don't think "honoring" is the right word, but I do see their inferiority complex behind this decision. It's one more thing they want to be able to say "but we did it first" about. Look at their AD's comments about the Big Chill and various other little brotherness that I can't think of right now.
not just "douchey" MGoBlog user, but now TRUSTED MGoBlog user
Calm down
I don't think he was agreeing with the tounge-in-cheek part of my post about it being "more like honoring UM." I was saying that in contrast to the person who said it was "honoring their history." Since the wings are clearly iconic to UM in the current day, it will seem more like a nod to UM than to the past...to people picking up a remote. No idea what MSU's AD is thinking in his head. That is all.
In fact, how is MSU going to sell this look to fans who don't like winged helmets?
I See Your Point
However, considering how MSU folks claim "we gave Michigan the wings," and the fact that they'll be wearing these wings against Michigan - it does look a bit like they're trying to make a point, in addition to selling jerseys and "honoring their history." Ohio had wings on their helmets before Sparty did (according to Uni-Watch) but we've never seen those in their pro-combat uniforms against Michigan.
While this may honestly just be an attempt to honor the past, I'm sure they'll continually point out in the week before the game that "we had these helmets before Michigan, who's copying who?" If that is the case, then yes, they're clearly displaying envy that their look isn't as iconic. (This is the same reason I don't want the Bo-era "pride stickers" on M's helmets - too Buckeye-esque).
If they don't holler about that, then you're right, they're just "honoring their history". Michigan is claiming to do that too this year. So even though I feel it's more about sales than history, and ruins what I feel is a pretty iconic looking football game between green-and-white and maize-and-blue, I'm in no position to throw stones, sitting in this glass house. I'll just be happy that Ohio is wearing their pro-combats against Wisconsin, so the Michigan-Ohio State game will FINALLY look the way it should.
Get outta here Sparty
You little rascal, scat now ya'hear!
(Not debating the factuality of your claim)
I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
-RIP Mitch
Think of it this way, why,
Think of it this way, why, exactly wouldn't MSU use jerseys/helmets from when they were legitimately good?
Using a "winged" design and colors far closer to Michigan's than MSU's is going to look awfully little brotherish to more than just Michigan fans.
Playing Devil's Advocate
Let's ignore Michigan's iconic helmets for a sec. Let's ignore helmets altogether. Why would MSU go away from their current jerseys to black and gold jerseys? Jersey sales, obviously.
I think the "winged" design may be more an effort to get a unique jersey selling in the bookstores and athletic shops around campus than anything else, honestly. The same reason we put stripes on our "historical" jerseys.
Your post of this information....
...just re-inforces Nike's marketing push to use these hideous things. "See, it's creating buzz."
Anyway, a very "little brother" move to wear winged-helmets. The envy is so green.
Eagles anyone?
Shame to mess with those
Shame to mess with those iconic MSU home jerseys.
LOL b/c they're not at all
LOL b/c they're not at all iconic!
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
Does anyone have a picture of
Does anyone have a picture of what it's going to look like?
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further contributing to MSU's
further contributing to MSU's identity crisis....
Blue is Faster
Hahahaha!
That's fucking great! MSU wearing wings for the UM game...god, I'm never letting them live that down. And, no I don't care that they wore them a few years before us. It's not like they were the originators or anything; just another team playing with he seems of the helmet. But only one team has made that design iconic. And that's U of M.
I really don't care what MSU
wears against us. But, to play Devil's Advocate, what would you think if the Red Sox wore uniforms with pinstripes while playing against the Yankees? As far as I know, the Red Sox don't have a "throw back" that fits that description and of course recently, they've been the better team. But wouldn't you just kinda scratch your head and wonder "why wear a poor-man's version of your rivals iconic uniform?" Even if* they had done it first.
*I refuse to look it up. But from what I remember learning, only Princeton could claim that they had wings on their helmets before we did.
"Coach, if you need one yard, I'll get you three yards. If you need five yards, I'll get you three yards." -Leroy Hoard
Actually, I don't think wings
Actually, I don't think wings were all that rare at one time.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Indiana once had a winged helmet.
Ugh,now we are forced to watch 2 full games with those hideous pro combat unis (3 if you include the night game) assuming that Ohio st. will were their pro combats when the play Michigan.
Me fail english thats unpossible!